You bet, someone to count on. Sure. And stories like this just keep on coming... This author particularly likes the quote from this website: How could there be more???

she was wearing a Legit Security uniform. She explained that the company that she currently worked for notified her that she would not receive her pay again. Legit was unable to make payroll once again and this is not the first time this had happened (she said she is weeks behind on pay).

And why does this seem important when Legit Security is up in Albuquerque and Taos?
Here you go

President- Charles Chavez

Vice President- Matt Hibben

Treasurer- Justin Crowder

Director- Joe Stidham

Chairman of the Board- Gil Baca III

Deputy Chief- Nathan Cox

Of course, having a person of character as our chief is simply not important here is it?

IF you look in the local newspaper you will see this little notice:

VALENCIA CARES WARM LINE is open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. to offer a listening ear when you need someone to talk to. People to staff phones and donations would be appreciated. Call 565-3045 to help.

This author doesn't know much about it except that it seems like such a nice thing to do. You can call and say "I had a shitty day and I can't get my kids to bed" and someone will listen. Sounds nice. You can call and say "My boyfriend dumped me and I hate him" or "I'm an old grandma and my grandkids live far away and I'm lonely".

IT just seems such a nice warm thing to do and maybe this author will make a donation or spend some time volunteering. This author encourages others to think about it too.

Even in Santa Fe....

people are reading about our not so wonderful Chief of police.

http://www.sfreporter.com/stories/dick/4654/all/

Bernalillo 2nd Judicial District Attorney Kari Brandenburg says her office has “boxes and boxes” of evidence, but the criminal investigation of Baca and Stidham “probably won’t be completed anytime soon.”

(author's emphasis, and comment- won't be done soon because there is so much information about their criminal activities???)

When it comes to Legit, however, Hamic’s claims seem to have had merit. As a result of complaints—including ones filed by Hamic, Public Information Officer Teala Kail concedes—the board contracted an investigator to look into Baca and Legit Security.

“Legit was fully aware of the investigation involving their company,” Herrera says. “I would say that the compliance effort on the part of RLD played a significant role in the closing of their doors.”

Hamic—who says he forwarded the investigator more than 300 pages worth of documents on Legit—says RLD can’t be certain Legit has fully closed up shop until it investigates the unlicensed company, ICU Security, which he believes has taken over Legit’s operations.

He’s already posted photos of Legit patrol cars and guards in Legit uniform continuing to work for clients.

What??? Part 2

http://www.bosquefarms.com/

Look at the name. Click on the link. While this link leads to a very interesting bit of trivia, it really has nothing to do with Bosque Farms. This is another example of the Village Manager not doing her job in ensuring that the websites that could be considered 'ours' are ours.

This is common practice- Bosquefarms.org, .com, .gov etc. should all be owned by us. It isn't expensive and it ensures that no matter what someone types in on teh address line, they get to our website.

At the risk of raising ire

You call it what you want
Ire
Anger
irate
rage
intense frustration
animosity
peeved
temper
vexed
and the list can go for a mile

Anger can be a very distruptive emotion. This is particularly true when you let it rule your life or you say things that are untrue, exaggerated, accusatory and hurtful.

This author recently found an interesting site and thought to share it with others on this blog. One quote that this author liked in particular is this one:

Logic defeats anger, because anger, even when it's justified, can quickly become irrational. So use cold hard logic on yourself. ... Angry people tend to demand things: fairness, appreciation, agreement, willingness to do things their way. Everyone wants these things, and we are all hurt and disappointed when we don't get them, but angry people demand them, and when their demands aren't met, their disappointment becomes anger.

Read the whole quote and find other information about anger at this site about anger. (The APA)

Other information is available here.
http://www.enotalone.com/article/4219.html

Welcome

We are thrilled to see a new business opening up. Southwest Medical.
Good luck to this place.

Businesses

This author is saddened by all the businesses that have been leaving Bosque Farms lately.

Curves is gone.
At least one trailer home sales place is gone.
One or two Used Car lots are gone.

The last ones on this list surprised this author as it seems that with our economy and such; used cars would be the way to go?

If you take a drive down Broadway it seems there are many many businesses going out of business or just trying to sell their place. The same in Albuquerque.

Is this just normal and it seems like a high rate of businesses are failing because of the news of the economy etc or is it really at a higher rate than normal?

A Problem

Did you know the previous Community Center (let's call it what it is shall we?) director used to let the building out for free if she knew you or if she liked your group? She would cut you a deal- you pick up garbage or clean the building and she'll let you have it for free.

Several groups took advantage of this.
Great! Good Idea. They do a little bit of community service and save a little bit of money on a building rental.

Employees were often allowed to use this building for free. Yes. Great perk. Good for them. But it was never counted as a perk and the Councilors were never told that this occured.

Too bad all groups couldn't take advantage of this Community Center and the services it offered to a select few.
If you were say a director of the local kids stamp collecting group and you wanted to meet there and you were not one of the select few the answer would be 1. NO. Yes a flat out no. As in 'NO, you might leave crumbs on the floor and that will bring mice.' or "No, we can't agree to weekly meetings here, we're a community center, not a meeting center.' or 2. Sure but you have to pay. Full price. Two hour minimum. And a cleaning deposit.

True.

Now there is someone new and someone wonderful and it's off to a fresh start. And this author has given her time to get in and settled. But The question remains- did the rental of this change? IS it now fair for everyone? Is everyone treated the same now?

Wanna make a bet?

National Month of...

Once again, some great opportunities are passing Bosque Farms by-

This is National Month of Military Service Appreciation.
National Preservation Month Learn more here
National Tennis Month
National Stroke Awareness Month. Learn how to recognize a stroke here.
Bike Month with a Bike to work week. See this.
National Foster Care Month Look at this

All these interesting, really neat, important national monthly events. And here? nothing. Sure it takes time. Sure it takes volunteers.

This community, in the past, has never lacked for someone willing to step up and volunteer and help and organize some event; particularly if it is an event they believe in. And it doesn't have to start big- it can start small.

Start in January, or February even.
Walk out to the tennis courts when someone is playing explain what you want and see if someone won't volunteer to do something special for one day for that month. Have the EMTs and Firefighters hold an open house with information about strokes and foster care kids.

It's a shame isn't it?

Did you Hear THIS?

This is interesting. Old News but the more this author thinks of it...

Recently there was a fuss over at Bosque Farms Elem. when they thought they might have enough money for a full rehab of the building. They were going to bus the kids to another school across town. Boy did the parents throw a fit.

This author went to the School Board meeting to see what the fuss was and guess what happened? Some lady got up and said that the Village of Bosque Farms was willing to allow the school to have free sewer and water if the School Board would just agree to set up a portable building in some guy's alfalfa field.

Amazing. Do you think that Mayor Ake really agreed to that? Would the Council?
They just raised their rates and they are agreeing to give away free water and sewer?

What???

This author will leave this one up to you to decide what is going on.

Look at this website. Be sure to note the name of the website before visiting it and then click on the link and what do you see? (nothing perverted so no worries there!)

http://www.bosquefarmspubliclibrary.org/

It is obvious that the Village website person did not do the basic first thing when making a webpage; grab all the names that you could possibly want that reflect your name so that people won't be visiting one website thinking it's you and it's not. Shame.

Some Ideas and a Challenge

Ok, here is the chance for everyone to provide a few ideas. The community director has been lauded by "Coulrophobic" as someone who will be planning community events.

(And you can read the exact quote here so there won't be any real misunderstandings.)

So, she planned a party- good going. Now, let's get this going and let it be a real community center.
This author has thought of a few ideas and provided them in the past, but here are just a few, and then you can add your own ideas.

- farmer's market
- author's talks
- local artist shows
- local artist lessons
- evening clubs- for members of all ages- dance club, singing club, art club, geneology club...
- movie night. Throw a sheet up on the wall, get a projector and show a movie outside. Bring your own popcorn.
- book club
- play group

Throw your ideas out and let's see if any of them are worthwhile.

The Truth

"NM TRUTH" had this to share. And if you do as this author did and check up on some of those things, you will find other places that will verify this is the truth. Hmmm. When will the Council see this and think about it?

We should all express our appreciation to the Chief and all that he is doing to the "right thing." I am not sure if this is a recent development but he seems to have turned away from his past life of crime to work hard at the PD. It may be that he is running away from his troubles at the security company, Legit Enterprises. They have recently had around $400,000 in Federal Tax Liens filed with Bernalillo County, are under investigation for tax fraud by eh state, under investigation by RLD for violations, are not paying workers wages (again).

Stidham is now partners again with Gil Baca- who is advertising that he is the "Chairman of the Board" of Legit Security while Stidham still is listed as the President on PRC filings with the state.

Maybe Bosque Farms government should verify some of this the with APD, the NM tax fraud unit, RLD, Attorney General and other law enforcement agencies. The truth is the truth. I have seen a number of new stories on the NM Security Blog about the company lately.

A response.

"Coulrophobic" There is help for people who are angry all the time. You seem to have more problems than merely being scared of clowns. You may be scared of clowns but you also seem to be very angry when nothing this author said was worth all of the anger. You seem to want to fight. That comes out with your twisting words around and the off the wall accusations that this blog blamed someone for something; yet this author has reread the original post and sees no blame being placed anywhere by this author.

This author was pretty clear about it but just in case you don't get it, this author has decided to spend some time translating the comments and pointing out the positive words. You seem to have missed them. This is not something this author will do on a daily basis for someone, such as yourself, intent on misunderstanding a simple comment. But in an attempt to help you understand that this author was a. not blaming anyone for anything and b. was not making a negative post; this one time this author is going to translate for you.

(Some translation in parentheses)

Statement one seems to speak for itself. It is a statement of fact that you seem determined to argue. Not sure how you can argue what this author says in this case.
Your arguments seems to be 1. 'others saw it so you should have too'. And 2. this author stated a fact, that you want to twist into this blog blaming someone.
Let's visit those two arguments.
1. This author was around town previous to the event and did not see it advertised. At least one other reader had the same complaint- didn't see the notice about the event. If others saw it, great. If others have better eyes than this author, good for them. This author didn't see them.
Why that makes you angry this author isn't sure but your argument doesn't stand.

2. Where is the blame? Who is this this author of accusing of not posting a notice? Who is this author is saying didn't do their job? What did the blog say someone did wrong? You can't answer these questions because there is no blame. This author blamed no one.

Again. this author just stated a fact- didn't see the notice, was around town and didn't see the notice.
Why that makes you angry this author isn't sure?! Why that makes you want to twist things around to accuse this blog of blaming someone for something when there was no blame but simply a statement of fact, this author isn't sure?!

Let's look at the rest of this post that this author wrote:

Good. (Positive word)

Finally it is being used as a community center.
(Positive thought. Finally, at last, good thing, it is being used as a community center instead of the senior center that the previous director tried to turn it into. Community- good thing. Using the community center for the community- good thing. Positive comment all around.)

But once a year does not a community center make.
(Statement of fact. A challenge of sorts. Don't let it stop here, you have to do more if you are going to make it a community center, you have to continue to invite in the Whole Community on a daily basis, not just one portion of a community or not the whole community for one day. So yes, do more.)

And Great. (positive word)

Finally, someone is doing something fun in this Village.
(The previous person at this community center did nothing for the community as a whole, finally we have someone who is- this is a positive comment! Yeah, we have someone who will do something fun and who will do it for the whole community. The community center is moving forward in a positive manner. This is a good thing. Not a bad thought in there.)

Hope it continues.
(Positive wishes, this author did not say - 'sure don't expect this to continue'. Instead this author expressed a positive expectation)

So let's sum it up. Two big positive words. A positive wish for the future. Praise for the community director that she's doing something fun for everyone. Praise for using the community center as what it is. And a challenge to continue.

Hm. This author still doesn't get what the anger is about.

Village Events

This author saw the response from "Coulrophobic" about the great time had by all at the event at the community center.

Several thoughts came to mind when this author saw it:
1. Nope. This author had been in the Village office paying for water and never saw a notice of it. This author had been in the library with the barking dog and never saw a notice of it. This author had not heard of this event.

2. Good. Finally it is being used as a community center. But once a year does not a community center make. And Great. Finally, someone is doing something fun in this Village. Hope it continues.

"The Flash" seems to agree to some of this at least.
In defense of BG and her blog, I'm a village resident, retired and out every day. There are seven members of my family also circulating each day...a daughter at UNMVC, a wife going,daily, to Belen for work....anyway, my point is no one saw anything about this event

....much like the BF Fair. I tried for ten years to convince the fair board to do some effective advertising and make the fair a real event. I had a web host, web designer, print ad specialists and marketing pros all ready to go for free, and was told...quote" We can handle this." After a decade of being given menial jobs and not ever being invited to the Friday lunch, I said "enough". The fair continues to stumble along,lamely,and my family stays home. It seems as if hiring "friends" with no experience or any desire other than a paycheck or people who need to enhance their housewife image once a year gets just the results one would expect. Seems as if ecomomic development suffers from the same myopic views. " Just do it and they'll come".....WRONG.....we need proactive people and attitudes.

http://bfgovernment.blogspot.com/2009/04/national-month-of.html

Swine Flu

As someone else recently pointed out to me. Pigs have been flying (swine flu) and we should expect some unusual events.

This author sends a sincere get well to everyone that does have this flu. The media is making it out to be so scary.

This author looked into and found out that it's not all that.
It is not really scary. IF you get sick and you think you have it- go to the dr.
The chances of you dying from this are less than or equal to the chances of you dying from some other flu. Very few people are dying. It is not scary.

The advice my friend who worked at a health center and has been talking to someone at the cdc gave was this:
Wash your hands a lot.
Keep your hands out of your mouth and nose.
Don't kiss your pet pig. IF your spouse is acting like a pig, you still won't catch swine flu - you can kiss and make up.

IS anyone there?

This author is sure that is what you are asking about this author and now that there has been an absence this author is wondering if anyone is there...

The answer is -this author is here. For some reason this author (and company if you believe) got mired in muck and this blog had to take a back burner. Now this author is up and running again.

There is plenty of stuff to share and plenty of things to think about and plenty of eyes are needed to watch this local government. Sad but true.